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After what feels like a very long time, we are home. We were only away from Medina for 7 weeks but it feels like a lot has happened in that time.

Leading up to the end of our house sitting, particularly when he was tired, Orbit would say he wanted to go back to Medina, he wanted to go home. Which was reassuring after his initial excitement of house sitting! The day finally came and Orbit was back on Medina. Back with his toys and ‘non-toys‘, back to the space where he can’t lose us, back to being in the middle of everything and back to his bed, which he symbolised by taking of his ‘travel’ pillow case to reveal his ‘Medina’ pillow case.

Since being back on Medina, Orbit has been discovering the physical differences of the growth spurt that happened while he was away. Areas that weren’t accessible before we left, now are and on the flip side, there are some areas that much smaller than they once were.

Step 2 to getting into bed

The second full day were were on Medina, I was glued to the Olympics when I heard Orbit say “mummy, mummy, look at me”. I turned to see Orbit sitting in his bed, proud as punch that he had completed the climb all by himself. I asked him to climb in and out again for me so I could see how he did it and get some photos – he kindly obliged.

Orbit has been able to slide out of bed for a while, but getting himself into bed seems to be a bigger achievement for him. Going to bed always involved the Skipper and I putting Orbit into bed, his bed was just too high for him to climb into – but no longer! With the lee cloth (the piece of netting that stops him from rolling out of bed) ‘half up’ Orbit now has another area accessible to play or spend time on his own.

Step 3 to getting into bed

Although Orbit can now get in and out of bed on his own, the Skipper or I still need to put the lee-cloth fully up or down. Because Orbit can’t yet undo the clips that hold the lee-cloth up, we are able to relax knowing that he is safe in his bed.

Because the lee-cloth is made of netting material, we can still see and talk to each other, but Orbit is out of harms way. It’s his ‘safe space’ on Medina. It is where he goes when either the Skipper or I can’t properly supervise him. This means he isn’t going to walking around on deck, isn’t going to hop off Medina and go visiting, isn’t going to be getting into things he shouldn’t while we’re asleep. We will continue to pop Orbit into bed when we are anchoring, leaving/entering a marina, tacking or gybing till he gets a little bit older and we can trust him to stay out of harms way.

It will be interesting going sailing again to see how much he has changed since we last unfurled the sails. It won’t be long now and we will be out there!

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